Graduate Students

Education:
BA 2006 - Wells College (English Minor: Women's Studies)
MA 2008 - SUNY at Buffalo (American Studies)

Biography:
Jenna Basiliere holds a BA in Women's Studies from Wells College (2006) and an MA in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2008). Current research interests include: the inclusion and exclusion of the transgender body in feminist and queer theory, the role of the feminist 'sex wars' in shaping current discussions around sex and sexuality, popular culture treatments of GLBT bodies, drag king culture, and cinematic biography as a narrative of transgender identity. In the past I have taught courses in introductory women's/gender studies, cultural formations of sexuality, and feminist theory.

Areas of Interest:
sex workers and labor, consumption culture, queer theory

Publications:

• Basiliere, Jenna (2009). "Political Is Personal: Scholarly Manifestations of the Feminist Sex Wars," Michigan Feminist Studies 22(1): 1-26.

Education:
BA 2007 - Univ Wisc Milwaukee (Women's Studies/Sociology)
MA 2009 - Univ Wisc Milwaukee (Sociology/Women's Studies)

Biography:
I focused my studies on identity as an intersectional project, chiefly investigating sexual, gender, and ethnic identities. This constant quest for self-discovery gave me my foci of border-crossing, hybrid, and intersectional identities.

Education:
BA 2008 - University of Southern California (Spanish, Gender Studies)
MA 2008 - Indiana University (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Biography:
A Los Angeles native, LaNita received her undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Gender studies from the University of Southern California in 2008. Working as a youth sex and health educator in L.A. and traveling through South America during her undergraduate career only cemented her passion for conducting transnational work focused on public health and gender/race disparities in healthcare. She worked on her M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from 2008-2010 at Indiana University focusing on the racialization of HIV/AIDS in US Latino communities and the social construction of infectious diseases. She is interested in producing practical and applicable scholarly work that looks at how medicine, gender, sexuality, and race intersect.

Areas of Interest:
public health, medicalization of gendered bodies, politics of HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights, contraceptive technologies, representations of STDs in visual media

Education:
BA 2010 Rutgers U Livingston (Women's Studies/Sociology)

Biography:

Areas of Interest:
My aim is to examine youth LGBTQ identity construction in relation to gender, specifically masculinity, and nation. I want to research the rhetoric regarding race and sexuality used locally, nationally, and internationally – preferably post WWII to today. My goal is to study and produce new languages and ways of talking about LGBTQ identity that will bridge intellectual gaps by producing literature that is both accessible and applicable to young urban gay men of color.

Education:
BA 2007 - Indiana University (Gender Studies)

Biography:
Nick Clarkson is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies with a minor in Cultural Studies. His dissertation research investigates the regulation of transgender bodies through U.S. passport policies as a technique for enforcing U.S. norms of gendered, sexed, and raced embodiment at national borders. In addition to his research, Nick volunteers with Indiana Youth Group in Indianapolis, facilitating the Gender Variant Youth Support Group.

Areas of Interest:
Transgender theory, biopolitics, masculinities, citizenship, surveillance, HIV/AIDS

Courses Taught:

• G104: From Faeries to Lipstick Lesbians. Summer 2010.
• G101: Gender, Culture and Society. Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011.

Publications:

• "Penis is Important for That." In Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification and the Desire to Conform, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Forthcoming, February 2012.
• "Transgender." World History Encyclopedia, edited by Alfred J. Andrea. ABC-CLIO, February 2011.
• "Trans Victims, Trans Zealots: A Critique of Dreger's History of the Bailey Controversy." Archives of Sexual Behavior (2008) 37: 441-443.

Education:
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)

• BA in English (creative writing concentration) and Women's Studies
• Masters in Liberal Studies (Interdisciplinary concentration)
• Certificate of Advanced Studies (in Gender and the Arts)

Biography:
Victoria Crump is originally from Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English (creative writing concentration) and Women's Studies from Hollins University. She also earned a Masters in Liberal Studies (Interdisciplinary concentration), and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (in Gender and the Arts) from her alma mater. In 2008, Victoria was a presenter at the University of South Dakota's Women's Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference: Women and Power. Her essay from this conference was published in the Summer 2009 edition of the South Dakota Review.

Areas of Interest:
In the broadest sense, her academic research and interests focus on the intersectionalities of gender, sex, and sexuality with race and class. Past research includes the marginalization of Female to Male Transsexuals of color, butch and femme aesthetics (and the political and feminist debates therein,) and lesbian health and its relationship to homophobia and physician-patient communication. Anything involving transgender studies, butch/femme, female masculinity, feminism(s), race, (subverting) gender roles, and merging modern popular culture with gender and women's studies immediately captures her attention.

Publications:
South Dakota Review: Summer 2008

Education:
MA 2009 - Indiana University (African American and African Diaspora Studies)
BA 2006 - Indiana State University (Studio Art: Metal and Furniture Design and African and African American Studies)

Biography:
Katie Dieter is pursuing a duel Ph.D. in Gender Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies. She holds a MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington (2009) and a Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art (Metal and Furniture Design) and African and African American Studies from Indiana State University (2006). Katie's research interests include skin tone hierarchy among African American women and the intersectionality of these issues with other identity markers, such as sexuality and gender. She is also interested in violence against women of color, and more particularly, intra-racial violence against black lesbians and its relation to skin tone hierarchal issues. As a visual artist, her research tends to inform her artwork. Katie is highly invested in using her artwork as a means to produce knowledge and she tries to show her work whenever possible.

Areas of Interest:
Skin tone hierarchy, intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, racial performativity and passing, violence against lesbians of color

Education:
BA 2005 - University of Iowa (Psychology and Women's Studies)

Biography: Laura Harrison researches the ways in which race, gender, reproduction, and reproductive technologies intersect in the contemporary United States.  Ms. Harrison was a member of the inaugural class of the Gender Studies PhD program at Indiana University in 2006.  She has taught several semesters of G101:  Gender, Culture, and Society and also a course that she developed independently, G104:  Extreme Bodies:  Identities in Transformation.  An essay by Ms. Harrison entitled “Brown Bodies, White Eggs:  Crossracial Gestational Surrogacy in the United States” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming anthology, Mothering at the Twenty-First Century:  Identity, Policy, Experience and Agency.  Ms. Harrison is also committed to forging connections between academia and activism, and has volunteered as a medical counselor at Planned Parenthood of Indiana since 2008.

Areas of Interest:
Assisted reproductive technologies, particularly in vitro fertilization and gestational surrogacy; constructions of race in the United States; changing ideologies of pregnancy and the fetus including fetal personhood, maternal-fetal conflict, and visual bonding theories.

Courses

• G101 - Gender Culture & Society
  - Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
• G104:  Extreme Bodies: Identities in Transformation – Summer 2008

Publications

• “Susan B. Anthony” and “Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”  2008. Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, ed. Jodi O’Brien.  Sage Publications, Inc.
• “Dove: Campaign for Real Beauty.”  2009.  The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia, ed. Julie A. Willett.Greenwood Press.  Publication forthcoming.
• “Brown Bodies, White Eggs:  Crossracial Gestational Surrogacy in the United States.” In Mothering at the Twenty-First Century:  Identity, Policy, Experience and Agency, ed. Andrea O’Reilly.  Columbia University Press.  Publication forthcoming.

Education:
BA 2006 - Gender Studies (Biology minor)

Biography:
Brandon Hill's research examines the intersection of science and the study of sex and gender. His work primarily utilizes a biological and psychological approach to examining how individuals perceive gender and sexual behavior. Brandon's research on sexual attitudes, sexuality, and transgender health has been presented both internationally and at US conferences. In the spring of 2008, he was awarded the International Friends of Kinsey Research Grant for his project titled; The Face of Gender: Sexual Dimorphism, Facial Features and Passability. Later that year he was invited to attend the University of Michigan International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Psychology Institute where he studied with Drs. Leonore Tiefer and Lih-Mei Liao. Currently, Brandon is an associate researcher at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction working on a research project funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Areas of Interest:
Bio-psychological development of gender behavior and sexual orientation, etiology and contemporary conceptualizations of transgender/transsexuality, sexual dimorphism and basic cognitive processing of sex and gender, the semantics of sexual language, sexual attitudes and behaviors

Courses

• Sex, Gender, and the Brain (G205)-Summer 2009
• Gender, Culture, and Society (G101) Spring 2009 & Fall 2009

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Hill, B.J., E. Amick, & Sanders, S.A. (in preparation). Who to use condoms with?: Variations in attitudes
  about condom use with different sexual partner types.
• Hill, B.J., E. Amick, & Sanders, S.A. (in review).  Assessing college-aged men and women’s attitudes
  about condoms: The development of the Brief Condom Attitudes Scale. Health Psychology.
• Hill, B.J., Rahman, Q., Bright, D.A., & Sanders, S.A. (in review). The semantics of sexual
  behavior and their implications for sexual health: US and UK gay men’s definitions of having “had sex.” AIDS Care.
• Sanders, S.A., Hill, B.J., Yarber, W.L., Graham, C.A., Crosby, R.A., & Milhausen, R.R. (in press).
  “Misclassification Bias: Diversity in conceptualizations about having “had sex.” Sexual Health.
• Janssen, E., McBride, K.R., Yarber, W.L., Hill, B.J., & Butler, S.M. (2008). Factors that
  influence arousal in men: A focus group study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37, 252-265.

Book Chapters

• Hill, B.J. (2009). Transvestism: Origins and contemporary understandings. In T. Cooke ed.
  Sex and Society, Volume I. London: Brown Reference Group.
• Hill, B.J. (2009). Misandry. In T. Cooke ed. Sex and Society, Volume I. London: Brown
  Reference Group.
• Hill, B.J. (2009). Repression. In T. Cooke ed. Sex and Society, Volume I. London: Brown
  Reference Group.
• Hill, B.J. (2009). Modesty. In T. Cooke ed. Sex and Society, Volume I. London: Brown
  Reference Group.
• Hill, B.J. (2007). Sex Manuals: Old and Modern West. In Malti-Douglas ed. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, Inc.
• Hill, B.J. & McBride, K.R. (2007). Transgender. In Malti-Douglas ed. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, Inc.
• Hill, B.J. & McBride, K.R. (2007). Transsexual: male to female. In Malti-Douglas ed.
  Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, Inc.

Education:
BA 2002 - National Taiwan University (Foreign Language and Literature) MA 2005 - National Taiwan University (Foreign Language and Literature)

Biography: Yu-Ying Hu is a fourth year Ph. D. student in Gender Studies. She is an international student coming from Taiwan. Her research interest includes Transnational Feminism, Cultural Globalization, Ethnography of Gender and Sexualities, Rhetoric on Gender and Sexuality in Media, Queer Politics and Theory, and Interdisciplinary Research Methods. She holds a BA and MA degree from National Taiwan University with a major in English Literature. Her MA thesis is focused on queer theories and politics, female masculinity and butch-femme aesthetics. She is now starting a dissertation project focused on examining the way in which the conceptualization of gender and sexuality in Taiwanese society has been shaped and reshaped by Taiwan's political modernization and cultural globalization. She will conduct her field work on a Taiwanese local lesbian community, which is distinguished by its members' gender roles and has prospered and caught great public attention in recent years, thus being a crucial site where ideologies concerning gender and sexuality are revealed. She will investigate mass media as a major means that initiates and mediates global-local encounters in Taiwanese culture and society.

Areas of Interest:
lesbian identity and queer youth culture in contemporary Taiwan; structural contingencies of the butch/femme aesthetic; various modes of critical analysis, including queer theory, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory

Education:
BA 1993 - University of Delhi (Sociology)
MA 1995 - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Sociology)

Biography: Betsy Jose graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1995 with a Masters degree in Sociology. As an international student hailing from India, she has extensive work experience in the NGO as well as the media sector. While in India, Betsy worked with organizations like TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) and the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) of Delhi. She has also volunteered with Sangini (India) Trust. Betsy worked in the media sector in radio, TV and film in various capacities including radio show host, TV Producer, TV host, associate director, scriptwriter and voiceover artiste to mention a few. Her interests revolve around media and its repercussions on the shaping of perceptions about gender and sexuality. Betsy strongly believes in the power of film as a vehicle of creating discourses to counter hegemonic ideologies. In the course of pursuing her PhD along with a minor in Telecommunications, Betsy has already produced a couple of shorts on the Kinsey Institute here on campus. One of them is featured on Kinsey Institute's website. (URL: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/video.html). Betsy's research interests revolve around the changing landscape of alternative sexualities in non-western cultures and the impact of media mechanisms, particularly film, on this phenomenon.

Areas of Interest:
Comparative studies of sexuality and the changing face and space of intimacies in non-western cultures, film-making, media studies with reference to gender and sexuality, social activism.

A documentary film “Beyond Boundaries” produced and directed by third-year doctoral student Betsy Jose has been selected for the IndyLGBT Film Festival to be held in November this year. The 26+ minute film takes a close look at the lives of immigrants in USA with diverse sexualities. It deals with how various aspects of their identities intersect and interact in making their experiences distinct, as well as similar in many ways. This film, produced for broadcast on WTIU, has been made by a documentary class that Betsy pursued in Spring 2009.

Betsy's film "Beyond Boundaries" has been selected for screening in the Competition Section at the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2010.http://www.mumbaiqueerfest.com/index.htm (they are yet to update their website). This is the fifth Festival selection for the film and the first selection outside the US. The next screening of the film is in Hollywood, CA at the LA Women's International Film Festival on March 29th 2010. Please spread the word if you have friends at any of the screening avenues.

Education:
B.A. 2001 - University of Mumbai (English Literature)
M.A. 2007 - University at Albany (Women's Studies, Africa Studies)

Biography:
Hailing from Mumbai, India, Shahin Kachwala graduated in 2001 with a Bachelors Degree in English Literature from the University of Mumbai. She arrived in the US in 2004 to pursue a Masters in Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. While at SUNY - Albany she also completed a second Masters in African Studies in 2007.

For the past two years, Shahin worked as a teaching adjunct for the Women's Studies Department, at the University at Albany, while also working full time as a researcher for the Center for Human Services Research, University at Albany.

Shahin's research interests straddle feminist and post-colonial theory as well as the history of women, sexuality and gender.

Areas of Interest:
gender and colonialism, neo-colonial processes, transnational feminisms, representations, social and cultural history, history of sexuality in Africa.

Education:
BA 2001 - Lambuth University (English; Minor(s): European Studies)
M.Ed 2005 - Vanderbilt University (Language, Literacy and Culture; Gender Studies minor)

Biography:
Bradley Lane researches contemporary feminist and queer visual cultures, as well as the cultural politics of American sexuality. At Indiana University, he regularly offers classes on the intersections of sexual politics and cultural production. This year, his courses include G205 (Photography, Film, and the Body); G205 (Sex Crimes and Punishment); and G205 (Feminist Sex Debates). He has essays forthcoming in Trans/Scripts: Queer Grads Reading Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009) and Sexing the Look: Sexualized Imagery in Popular Visual Cultures (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) and has also served as a contributor to LGBTQ America Today. Previously, Bradley served as a Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he taught courses on LGBT studies and queer theory. His dissertation project concerns the visual representation of sexual perversion, particularly through the figure of the sexual predator.

Areas of Interest:
sexuality and the body in contemporary visual culture; cultural politics of twentieth century sexuality; feminist and queer pedagogy; new media, popular culture, and the arts

• Publications:
  Arousing Suspicions: The Visual Culture of Contemporary Anti-Pornography Feminism.” Forthcoming in Gentile, Kathy (Ed.), Sexing the Look: Sexualized Imagery in Popular Visual Cultures. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010
• Suddenly Last Semester: What Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer Taught Me about the Queer Dis-ease.” Forthcoming in Battis, Jes (Ed.), Homophiles: Queer Grads Reading Culture, Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
• “Being Made Up: Semiotics, Pedagogy, and Identity in America’s Next Top Model.” Co-authored with Jessica Giles, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.  Forthcoming in Columbus, Frank (Ed.), Social Changes. Nova Science Press, 2009

Education:
BA 2004 - Miami University (Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's Studies minor)
MA 2007 - San Diego State University (Women's Studies)

Biography:
Joselyn K. Leimbach is a graduate student at Indiana University's Gender Studies program where she is currently examining the representation of lesbians of color in English language lesbian films. Her interests include feminist and queer theory, race relations within socio-political borders, and film studies. Previously she has acted as assistant editor of The Journal of Lesbian Studies and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2007)and the Encyclopedia of North American Sport (forth coming). She received her Master's Degree in Spring 2008 in Women's Studies from San Diego State University where she acted as a guest lecturer. While there Joselyn investigated the treatment of Black lesbians in American mainstream film and has presented her findings at the Pacific South West Women's Studies Association annual conference and the Conference for the National Women's Studies Association.

Areas of Interest:
representations of lesbian of color in lesbian films, race and representation

Education:
BA 2006 - University of Arkansas (History and European Studies, Gender Studies minor)

Biography:
I am pursuing a dual PhD in Gender Studies and History. I received a B.A. in History and European Studies, with a minor in Gender Studies, from the University of Arkansas in 2006 and a M.A. in History from Indiana University in 2009. My concentration within the Department of Gender Studies is Sexualities, Desires, and Identities. I served as an associate instructor for Gender Studies from 2006-2008, during which time I lead discussion sections for G101, graded for G225, and taught G101 (Gender, Culture, and Society). Since 2008 I have worked as an editorial assistant for the Journal of American History.

My current research and teaching interests include the history of feminism, debates over abortion, the intersection of second-wave feminism and the New Right as seen in conservative feminist groups, gender and social movements, feminist theory, gender and the family in U.S. history, women's clubs in the late 19th and early 20th century U.S., and the race uplift movement.

Areas of Interest:
Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's History; First-wave feminism; History of age-of-consent legislation; The Women's Club Movement; Turn-of-the-Century Black Middle-class Race Uplift Rhetoric; Borders, Liminality, and Sites of Transgression in the History of Sexuality in the U.S.

Courses

• G101 Gender, Culture, and Society

Publications

• "Nineteenth Amendment" and "National American Woman Suffrage Association" in the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Sage, 2009)
• "Feminists for Life" in the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (Sage, forthcoming).

Education:
BA 2009 - University of Michigan Ann Arbor (Psychology/Mathematics)

Biography: I have investigated legal and medical policing of gendered bodies in the United States, while my activism has centered on the lived experiences of disabled and trans people. My passion for this subject motivates me to pursue graduate research on medical and technological constructions of disabled transgender embodiment in the 20 and 21st century United States.

Education:
BA 2008 Miami University (Women's Studies)
MA 2010 University of Notre Dame (English/Gender Studies)

Biography:
My academic interests revolve around activism and ally work, particulary among young adults. For my undergraduate thesis, I wrote on the benefits of activism for college students specifically, but for a doctoral program I would like to expand my scope to include other groups, particularly high school students.

Education:
BA 2003 - University of Michigan (Art History and Women's Studies)
MA 2006 - Ohio State University (Women's Studies)

Areas of Interest:
literary and cultural representations of violence against women; autobiography; narratives of trauma; representation as a social and political act

Education:
BA 2001 - Princeton University (English Minor: Women's Studies)
MA 2005 - New York University (Gender Politics)

Areas of Interest:
intersections of feminism, queer theory, and narrative theory; feminist literary criticism

Education:
BA 1998 - Earlham College (Women's Studies)
MA 2007 - Florida Atlantic University (Women's Studies)

Areas of Interest:
Interested in transnational gender nonconformity and identity. Lesbian rights in the "global south," project on "The L Word" in Italy.

Education:
BA 2005 - Eastern Oregon University (Anthropology and Sociology, Gender Studies minor)

Biography:
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams is a member of the Miwok of the El Dorado Rancheria and is a single mother of twin six-year-old girls who joined the inaugural class of the nation's first Gender Studies Ph.D. program at Indiana University Bloomington in 2006 as the Indiana University Diversity Scholar.   In 2008, Cierra was admitted to the American Studies PhD program and is working toward a combined PhD in Gender Studies and American Studies.   She has recently been awarded IU's 2009-10 John H. Edwards fellow for "good citizenship, character, and especially attitude toward public service and the likelihood of future usefulness to society, scholastic ability, intellectual capacity."

Ms. Thomas-Williams' courses taught include G104 Representations of Black Women in Popular Culture and in Spring and Summer 2008 G101 Gender, Culture, and Society. Cierra has contributed to the academic journals Callaloo, 'emisferica, and to On Campus with Women, a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in a special issue entitled Visibility and Invisibility: LGBTQ Students on Campus. Ms. Thomas-Williams is one of the 2007 Friends of the Kinsey Institute grant recipients for collaborative research on sexuality with Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier for their research on sexual citizenship in Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Areas of Interest:
representations of women of color in media; critical race and feminist theories; and transnational feminisms as they intersect with theories of the Black Diaspora.

Courses:

• G104 Representations of Black Women in Popular Culture
• G101 Gender, Culture, and Society

Book/Film Reviews:

• “Book Review: Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness,” an edited collection by Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas,” Callaloo, Vol. 32 No.2, 2009, p. 679-72.
• “Book Review: Mammy: a Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory,” by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders. emisferica, 5.2: Race and its Others, November 2008.
• “Film Review: Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind,” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 10 #2, November 2008.

Articles:

• “Bridging Differences through Feminist Service Learning,” On Campus with Women: Visibility and Invisibility: LGBTQ Students on Campus, Spring 2005, Volume 34, Issue 3, co-authored with Tonia St. Germain, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Gender Studies.

Education:
BA 2007 -Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Psychology)

Areas of Interest:
Internet fanfiction communities and sexuality, non-normative gender identity formation and performance

Education:
BA 2008 - Indiana University

Biography:
Allison Vandenberg holds a Bachelors of Arts in Gender Studies from Indiana University. Her work focuses on the ways in which individual and group identities are shaped by sex, gender, and sexuality.

Areas of Interest:
the history of sexuality, the construction and performance of gender, body dysmorphic disorders, and representations of gender and sexuality in popular culture.

Education:
BA 2003 - Purdue University (English, Women's Studies and Religious Studies minor)
MA 2005 - Purdue University (American Studies, Women's Studies minor)

Biography:
Stacey Weida is currently entering her third year in the Gender Studies Department. She received her B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies and her M.A. in American Studies with a certificate in Women's Studies from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She has taught Introductory Composition, Business Writing, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Gender, Culture, & Society, as well as Gender Studies special topics courses on technology and embodiment (G104: Rethinking the Gendered Body) ecofeminism and environmental justice (G104: Intersections of Gender and Nature), and masculinity and socioeconomic class (G205: Masculinities, Power & Money). Stacy has also recently had two encyclopedia entries accepted for publication in Jodi O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Sage Press). Her research focuses primarily on gender in postwar America with an emphasis on feminist critical theory, conceptions of the gendered self, embodiment, socioeconomic class, feminist geography, and representations of "alternative" and postmodern masculinities.

Areas of Interest:
textual representations of the sexed and gendered body, especially the ways in which texts are used by institutions to formulate class-based appeals and to forge ideological solidarities among disfranchised groups; religious discourse; feminist theory and activism in a global and transnational context

Courses:

• G104 Representations of Black Women in Popular Culture
• G205 Masculinities, Power & Money